enreeco / sf-automatic-data-export-script

Automatically download Data Export files

Automatic Salesforce Data Export Wizard

Introduction

This simple script extracts zipped CSV files on the Salesforce Data Export feature of the Salesforce Setup. With this tool you can schedule a script on a local/remote server to automatically download all 512MB zipped files on the Salesforce Data Export page.

Installation

1. Install all required modules from package: npm install
2. Install Foreman to run with env variables in file .env: npm install -g foreman or npm install -g heroku
3. Rename a .env-local file into .env and set the local path, Salesforce login Url, username and password+token in the respective keys
4. Run nf startor heroku local

Configuration

Before running the script configure the following environment variables:

localfolder=path\to\local\folder
loginurl=https://login.salesforce.com
username=myusername@example.
password=PASSWORD+TOKEN

Credits

Enrico Murru 2021 - https://blog.enree.co/2021/01/automatic-export-tool-for-salesforce-data-export-backups.html